Time Lag and Nutrient Storage Effects in the Transient Growth Response of Chlamydomonas reinhardii in Nitrogen-limited Batch and Continuous Culture
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- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 104 (2) , 227-231
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-104-2-227
Abstract
SUMMARY: Chlamydomonas reinhardii populations in nitrite-limited chemostat culture exhibited damped oscillations in cell number following sharp changes in dilution rate. These oscillations had a period of about 70 h and damped out after not more than two clearly observable cycles. Residual nitrogen in the culture medium during these cycles remained very low (less than 1 µmol N 1-1). The oscillations were apparently caused by the presence of a complex delay of two distinct physiological components in the relationship between cell division rate and environmental limiting nutrient concentration.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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